Billing country

The country you select when you first set up your Google billing account. Normally, this is the country where you or your business resides. It determines the payment methods and currencies you can use to pay for any subscription in your account. You can't change your account's billing country after setting up your first subscription.

Billing address

The address associated with a specific payment method in your Google billing account. You can have a different billing address for each payment method. Depending on your location, however, a billing address might have to be in the billing country associated with your billing account.

Business address

The business address you specify when you set up your Google billing account. You can have only one business address in your billing account and it applies for all subscriptions in that account. Note that your business address doesn't have to match any of your payment method's billing addresses. Your business address is printed on receipts generated from your account. After setting up your billing account, you can go back later to change any part of your business address except the country.

Seat

Each seat you purchase represents a user to whom you can assign a license. For example, if your G Suite subscription includes 100 seats, you can assign licenses to 100 users. If you assign licenses to 50 users, you have 50 seats remaining.

Payment method

Primary payment method

The credit card or bank account you use to make automatic payments for each subscription in your Google billing account. To ensure continued service, you must have a valid primary payment method associated with your billing account.

Bank account

Automatic payments

The regular payment we automatically charge to your primary payment method for a subscription in your Google billing account. For a G Suite subscription, for example, we automatically charge your primary payment method at the beginning of each month for services accrued the previous month.

Manual payment

A payment option where you can add credit to your billing account to use for your next automatic payment. You can also make a manual payment to pay off an outstanding balance, for example, to lift a billing suspension. You make a manual payment from your Admin console, not by sending payment directly to Google.

Declined / failed payment

A payment that has been declined by your bank or credit card company. In some cases, we'll be able to give you details about why the payment was declined. In other cases, you'll need to check directly with your bank or card issuer to learn why it was declined.